Typhoon Haiyan, also called Yolanda, left death and destruction in the Philippines before moving on to Vietnam and China. Officials fear up to 10,000 people could be dead in the Philippines.

If the death toll is confirmed, officials say Haiyan will be the deadliest natural catastrophe on record in the Philippines, topping the deadliest disaster to date, which is the 1976 magnitude-7.9 earthquake that triggered a tsunami in the Moro Gulf in the Philippines and killed 5,791 people.